Zine spread at the show last night. #FPM @The_Counterforce @la_chaine
You can print and distro most of this yourself wherever you are!!
#zines #distroism
btw I rarely sell original art, but I'm doing so for the pencils/inks for this comic.
https://tomdbug.wpcomstaging.com/2026/01/20/original-artwork-for-sale/
Former crypto-mining company building 430 MW datacenter in secret location for secret client - https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/23/applied_digital_secret_datacenter/ "Keeps location under wraps after communities opposed past projects"
So tell me, how do you feel about TikTok in the US now opening ways for systems like Palantir and others that "assist" ICE to access the user data? Allowing the US to do what they accused China to do, surveillance, when avoiding that was the original reason for the whole fight?
You can’t detain a 5 year old child.
If a masked man grabs a kid off the street and puts him in an unmarked car… that’s kidnapping.
If that child is then sent to another state? That’s trafficking.
Language matters here.
What happened to Liam Ramos should outrage us all.
"Minneapolis needs your help, your money, your supplies, absolutely right now. But so does the community you live in. We are all we have..."
Essential reading from Dan SInker.
LISTEN: EFF’s @evacide gave a crash course on cybersecurity threat modeling on the latest episode of KQED’s Close All Tabs podcast. https://www.kqed.org/news/12070531/your-digital-footprint-reveals-more-than-you-think
The supposed ceasefire has not stopped Israel's massacre of journalists in Gaza.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/21/israel-strike-journalists-gaza-cbs-news
What's going on in Trump's messed-up hand? Preview of the new comic, up now on Patreon. https://patreon.com/brianmcfadden
BREAKING: The Trump admin apparently tried to bring charges against journalist Don Lemon for covering a protest inside a church, but a magistrate judge immediately rejected them.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/politics/don-lemon-justice-department-minnesota
A free press can’t exist in a surveillance state.
Geofence warrants allow the government to collect location data on everyone, including journalists and whistleblowers.
A Supreme Court case could make it worse. Here’s how.
https://freedom.press/issues/supreme-court-could-greenlight-geofence-warrants/
The Guardian's "Today in Focus" podcast had an episode about this a couple days ago. Rare earth mineral rights for a crony appears to be the answer.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2026/jan/20/why-donald-trump-really-wants-greenland-podcast
Is there a way to approximate traceroute between two machines neither of which I have access to? Internet searches found nothing. (I know it might be a strange question, but the security and privacy aware will have a hunch what this is about.) Feel free to DM me if you need more info.
Excellent scifi author @naomikritzer, who's also quite active in political convos, has written about sensible stuff folks outside of MN can do right now (which includes a link to her other post for folks in MN, if that's where you are).
https://naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/how-to-help-if-you-are-outside-minnesota/
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa